Being There: Robert Irwin at the Hirshhorn

Being There Robert Irwin at the Hirshhorn April 7th- Sept 5th, 2016 By Sarah Kate Jorgensen   Robert Irwin Untitled, 1969 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Robert Irwin is one of those artists who come along once in a century and makes art that investigates the nature of art, or more particularly, the nature of […]

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Albrecht Dürer at the National Gallery of Art

Albrecht Dürer at the National Gallery of Art March 24 – June 9, 2013 by Sarah Katherine Jorgensen The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC has organized a phenomenal exhibition of Albrecht Dürer’s watercolors, drawings and engravings from the Albertina Museum in Vienna. There are so many astounding works that it is impossible to take a […]

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Collage: Past, Present and Future

Collage: Past, Present and Future A review of Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913- Present April 18th to September 8th, 2013 Hirshhorn Museum by Sarah Kate Jorgensen The Hirshhorn’s collage, found object, and assemblage show– Over ,Under, Next- marks the 100th  anniversary of collage. Beginning with Pablo Picasso’s and Georges Braque’s 1912 paper […]

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The Fantastic Painting Show

May 2013 The Fantastic Painting Show Chelsea, NYC  May 2013 By Sarah Kate Jorgensen “The Fantastic Painting Show” presents three artists: Rebecca Haskins, Shiri Mordechay and Bettina Sellmann, whose work combines the narrative, the historical and the fanciful. Each are painters who create exciting, multilayered pieces that refer to contemporary time as well as to […]

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The Civil War and American Art. Part Three

 The Civil War and American Art By Sarah Kate Jorgensen Smithsonian American Art Museum  & The Metropolitan Museum of Art PART 3: THE RETURN In Winslow Homer’s The Veteran in a New Field, sun shimmers off the wheat as it sways in the wind. The painting is made up of three bands of color: the […]

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The Civil War and American Art. Part Two

 The Civil War and American Art By Sarah Kate Jorgensen Smithsonian American Art Museum  & The Metropolitan Museum of Art PART 2:  EASTMAN JOHNSON’S “NEGRO LIFE AT THE SOUTH” Genre paintings reveal personal and political narratives in the exhibit The Civil War and American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  They cover topics from […]

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Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 9 Landscapes Edition

We’re pleased to present the latest issue of Artist Portfolio Magazine. Click on the image above to view the latest issue of Artist Portfolio Magazine: the Landscape Issue. Issue 9 includes an interview with artist Michael Ward.

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An Intimate World: Welling’s Wyeth

An Intimate World: Welling’s Wyeth David Zwirner, New York/London Art Review By Sarah Kate Jorgensen A full moon obscured by clouds, an isolated farmhouse, light through a dormer window; a wall cast in shadows; the yellowing and reddening of the leaves; a frosted window; wallpaper peeling off the kitchen wall; a cabinet of spices, windows […]

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Craft in America and Its New Direction

Craft in America and Its New Direction 40 Under 40: Craft Futures at the Renwick Gallery Smithsonian American Art Museum July 20th, 2012- February 3rd, 2013 by Sarah Jorgensen When asked if they are craftsmen, artists often pause. One artist, Paul Myoda, at Project 4 Gallery recently said that this is a loaded question, as “craft” […]

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George Bellows at the National Gallery of Art

George Bellows June 10–October 8, 2012 National Gallery of Art by Sarah Kate Jorgensen George Bellows, the subject of an exhaustive retrospective and handsome catalogue by the National Gallery, gained fame for his seminal paintings of boxing matches in early twentieth century New York City.  The exhibition opens up a new conversation about Bellows, showing […]

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New York: the Armory Show, 2012

New York: the Armory Show, 2012 By Sarah Kate Jorgensen The Armory, an art fair that brings together galleries from the Americas, Europe and Asia, began 100 years ago. Ten years ago there were just a few names and a particular aesthetic ran through the galleries in Pier 94, the contemporary section; the names of […]

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Richard Diebenkorn at OCMA

Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series by Sarah Kate Jorgensen Orange County Museum of Art   Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park series is one of the most intriguing and exceptional series of works in American Art. It is put on breathtaking display at the Orange County Museum of Art. The career of Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), which […]

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